I was actually thinking the "drek" age

Always looking for Giant-Size Marvels and Extreme High Grade Vampirella's
Savage Sword of Conan Magazines needed VF++ or better: 18, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 55, 61, 98, 129, 132, 134, 141, 143, 145, 151, 171, 179, 191, 192, 194, 196-211, 215, 216, 217, 218, 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, 228, 229, 235

“I don’t do this for the Commander in Chief.  I do this for my country, and I will continue to do so.”

"They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative."

"Why," my soldiers asked of me, "surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?" I could not answer.

- Gen Douglas MacArthur

I think the Golden Age, Silver Age and perhaps finally now the Bronze Age of Comics are pretty well defined and (dare I say?) set in stone, but you never know. These tags are just something we place on these eras in retrospect, so I would suspect that as time marches on, the eras will inevitably "expand". I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it was really short-sighted thinking to believe that the Bronze Age could have been contained to a mere 10 year period.

It's interesting, and more than a little frustrating, to search on eBay by era. You type in "Batman" for instance and invariably you'll come up with something like: Golden Age 100 comics, Silver Age 400, Bronze Age 300 and Modern 3,000!!! As you may know, eBay still ends the Bronze Age in 1979. Heck, the earliest "modern" age books are now quickly approaching 30 years old!

The Golden Age is so closely identified with certain Super-Heroes and other characters that it would be difficult to separate them from their designation, however such is not necessarily the case with the remaining eras. I suppose one could make a case for the Silver Age. When I think Silver Age, I think of The Flash (Barry Allen), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), The Justice League of America and Carmine Infantino. But I'm a DC guy. I realize that for you Marvel-ites out there the Silver Age holds much greater meaning.

Bronze? Copper? Iron? Dark? Modern? Pshaw! The terms will all be meaning less in the future. "Golden Age" will always be a term used that can be related to many different things and media. There's a Golden Age of baseball, but do people try to ascribe different titles to the other eras? We all know of the Golden Age of television, but is there a Silver Age (I Dream of Jeanie?), Bronze Age (M*A*S*H*?) or a Copper Age (CHiPs?)? And according to eBay's timeline, "Miami Vice", "Who's the Boss" and "Family Ties" would be considered modern age shows! I watched those shows in High School and I'm in my 40's now!

It's absolutely silly and far too much time is spent fussing over this. I think that each individual and every generation has their "own" Golden Age. If we use up all of the "good" age designations, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper now, then what will we leave our kids? Nickel, Aluminum, Lead and Tin? "Hey that Batman was kinda dark and forboding in the Lead Age, but he loosened up quite a bit in the Tin Age...I like both, but for me his best years were at the end of the Zinc Age, right before the Zirconium Age! Ugh.